Hi, welcome back to 20 moves in 20 days. Today we are going to talk about Kuta PA. Now coda pa is a position of the foot, and it's going to be something that you'll see quite a bit. Same with what we're going to learn tomorrow, which is rhetoric. So I'm excited to show this to you. And let's go ahead and get started. So we're going to take kind of a different turn from what we've been doing with our balancing and things like that.

So again, this is a foot position. So I'm just going to kind of face this camera for a second and then I'll show you a side view as well. But what it is, is it's going to be our toe, and it's going to be connected a little bit right above your ankle bone. Mine is really knobby. So I always think, okay, it's a knobby portion, and then go just a little bit further up. And then I'm really thinking about my heel coming forward.

So one of the things I want to caution you about right at the beginning is the fact that it's very common and easy, especially if you're getting tired. Your foot it's sort of fatiguing is to start letting your heel just sort of rest against your leg. But unfortunately, that position is completely incorrect. So we really want to think about continuing to articulator turnout, right from right below the hips, knees, and ankles as well. And think about rotating that ankle away from us, right? If we if it's coming into Word, this it's incorrect.

So think about rotating out. You know, one, one trick that's really easy, where most people the reason most people start turning in when turning in their ankles, is because they're not fully articulating their turnout. So if all you do is push that knee back to where you can, this usually sort of self correct, but they are two independent things. So again, thinking about your heel coming forward is going to be really important. So this is your could be a position. Now to the back.

I want to think about Heel connecting to the back of my leg here. So again, if you think about where it was connected to the front, just right around the other side, my heel is connected to my other leg here, my toe is articulating backwards. So again, if my heels coming forward as it should be, I won't have this problem where I'm resting my toe against my leg, and actually tickling my foot. I want to make sure it's fully pointed. So think about your heel connected right now my feet, just to give you some context are very, very articulate they, I have a really high arch, which allows me to really, really point my feet in a way that is more dramatic than most people tend to have. So don't think that if your foot doesn't look like mine, that it's incorrect, necessarily.

It's probably not. It just might not have quite the same amount of bending In the way that you point your toes, and my ankles are super flexible as well. So that also allows me to have a very defined position here, but a lot of people won't have quite that much. So don't stress about that. Just want to make sure that you're thinking of connecting your heel to the back of your ankle, or your toe to the front. Either way, my heels are articulating forward, okay.

So this is that position right here. And right here, so your know your could a PA now and that's a position of the foot and now we're going to talk about coupee. Sometimes those words get interchanged, but they're actually two different things. The GPA, like I said, is a position it's a noun, meaning the meaning the position of your foot stays in a sort of, hopefully static position while you're balancing versus a coupe is a verb it means to cut. So when we're cutting, we still go through our crappy position, but say we're going to go from third position. We just can't Cut to it and come back down.

Right It's a cutting motion oftentimes, we use this by saying coupe and then you switch and coupe where you go from the front to the back. Right so I'm cutting from one position to the other. So again, this isn't a coupe unless I have the emotion attached to it where it's this and then I switch or just from here I I go to I coupe which means that I've cut from a flat position to one foot, could it be a alright